Start from Indri. Try to catch the words that the speakers are saying.

Just like the previous example, the utterance was expressed in the imperative mood followed by the reason as the imminent danger. A lowered quality of voice was also employed. These utterances, somehow, served as a strengthener of the earlier warning.

c. Expressives

Expressive are those kinds of speech acts which express the speaker’s feelings or psychological states which can be thanking, apologizing, stating like, pleasure, sorrow, dislike, and so on. The types of expressive illocutionary forces found in this study were varied. They included greeting, apologizing, thanking, stating anger, annoyance, disappointment, goodbye, pleasure, surprise, wishing, and complimenting. 1 Greeting Greeting deals with welcoming someone with particular words such as ‘hello’, ‘hi’, ‘good morning’, and so on. Here is an example of the act of greeting in the bold form employed by the teacher during the English lesson: In the example above, the teacher greeted back the students who were involved in the English teaching and learning process at that time.Greeting was the very first words exchanged by the interlocutors. This was usually done by the teacher in the opening phase before they started the activity and to welcome the students who joined the class that day. Ss: Morning spirit, Ma’am.

T: Morning spirit. Thank you.

M-10100:16-00:18 The teacher always greeted the students by using the expression “morning spirit”. It was the jargon they created and used to show that they were in a good spirit to join the class. Thus, the teacher’s utterance was classified as expressive with the illocutionary act of greeting. It is included into expressive since it shows the speaker’s feeling. By performing greeting, the teacher tried to make her words fit the world of feeling. 2 Apologizing Apologizing is the act of saying sorry. It shows that someone is feeling sorry for having done something that causes other people problems or troubles. The example of apologizing performed by the teacher is exemplified below: In the example above, the teacher performed the act of apologizing. Apologizing belongs to expressive since it shows the speaker’s feeling or emotional response. The teacher’s feeling or emotional response was marked by the use of the word “sorry”, which is usually used to express an apology. By saying sorry, the teacher tried to convey her admission of guilt to one of her students because she misheard what her student said. Her student, Leo actually had repeated the same exact utterances said by the speaker on the listening recording. Leo said “Where have you been?”. However, the teacher misheard the word “where”. She thought that Leo said “When have you S: Saya bilangnya where, bu. I said where, Ma’am. T: Oh, I see. Sorry, I didn’t hear it. M-214920:38-20:41